I finally watched a Water Polo game -Sunday night, US beat Germany which put them straight into the semi-finals (go US!). This was not the most interesting thing to me. What really struck me was how such a violent sport, where men are being thrown into the penalty box every 10 minutes without even a pause to the game can have such a girly uniform.

Now, I understand the speedos, obviously they need those in order to swim faster, but how on Earth do you feel manly wearing essentially a tight bonnet with ear protectors on your head?

I found some pictures on the lovely World Wide Web to demonstrate my point.


Here's a very many looking Spaniard from a few years back, hairy chest and all, waiving his flag in a victorious shout for joy. For God's sake, man, take that thing off your head! You're out of the water! Don't you know there are camera's snapping photos of you? How do you expect to look manly in a speedo with a bow tied underneath your chin?


This man's in the water, and clearly needs his ear protectors to cover his ears from the fast flying balls (and I mean the water polo balls of course) but does anyone else think he looks more like he should be on Broadway than in a swimming pool playing an athletic and quite violent sport?

and my favorite:

These guys were just asking for it. Not only is that ridiculous bow so big it makes me want to yank it right from his neck, the guy on the left had to make matters worse by grabbing his breast! Get a room ladies!

So that's what I learned this week about Water Polo, fun sport, funny hats.
(oh, and anyone who played it at USC is all right in my books -especially if his initials are MDS )

Every time I go to a city and meet SG's there I think "Wow -fill in the City- has some amazing SuicideGirls, I'm so lucky to have met them."

Seattle is no different.
Working a weekend can suck sometimes but when you're doing it with such wonderful people, it doesn't feel like work at all.

If anyone was lucky enough to be at the Emerald City Comic-con this past weekend and chat with the lovely ladies there, they know what I'm talking about.

Awsome apples of my eyes:
Sedora
Madeleine
Doxie
Silencia
Lyxzen
Skully
marigold
charm
blyss
kara
amelinda


p.s. It is NOT ok to know your daughter's exact height, weight and bust size.

A little late, but I just got this pic from my sister. Christmas with the siblings, and my two special pals Snoop and Dom. Life is sweet.




Please pardon the fuzziness of the image...and the fact that his fly is open, what can I say, he's a dogg!

I put up my Christmas tree this weekend. Instead of putting all the ornaments I can find, I went with a subtle silver and blue theme with clear lights. And after I was finished I made two batches of Maple muffins. Still trying to perfect the recipe, but it's fun trying!

Remember, treat every day like Christmas!

I'm in Chicago now, drinking champagne with some lovely ladies.

There's 4 of them.

and 4 empty bottles of champagne.

I don't know where the night will take us....

I think that if a country has a maple leaf on its flag it should be a requirement that all restaurants serve REAL maple syrup when they list maple syrup on their menu.

And don't get me started on the inability to find Maple Jelly in a plethora of stores searched.

At least the SG's in Toronto made up for it. Some of the loveliest, nicest most awsome ladies north of the border :-)

I tried a new recipe yesterday and it gave me an amazing idea for a whole themed meal. I made an artichoke salad...with RAW artichokes as the salad leaves. I didn't even know you can eat an artichoke raw, but it was quite tasty.


My goal: to make an entire meal where every item is artichoke based. I lost my recipe for the artichoke burrito, I hope they have them again at the Artichoke Festival. I sure do love artichokes!

Wow, I think I just officially became the man of the house. I just fixed the garbage disposal (which had been not working for over a week) AND lit the pilot light in the heater....and it's been fucking cold for quite some time now. All within 5 minutes of each other.

All that after having met up with my best girlfriends. It's lovely what a littel girl's time and a margarita can do!

Is there really not a lot to watch on all these cable Television channels? Or is it because I don't normally watch TV, so I don't know what the titles of the shows are, maybe I should give something unknown a chance.

I have managed to amuse myself with this built-in camera in my computer, not too shabby for this time of night I'd say.

I always thought it'd be good to have a mechanic in the family. I'm changing my tune: I want an Air Conditioner fixer in the family.